📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This workcamp will be carried out in cooperation with a non-profit organization which for more than 15 years has been using activities and sports as a tool for community transformation in Colombia, to promote the capabilities of children and teenagers, inspiring them to be agents of change. Your volunteering will be placed mainly in CiEnaga and Santa Marta. Here we offer sport, cultural and recreational activities like football, dance, music and language classes to more than 700 kids and teenagers weekly.Together we achieve a real impact. The foundation believes in the reciprocal exchange of experiences.The volunteer program allows you to contribute to the improvement of the community by giving your time and sharing your experiences, talents and knowledge.
💼 What the programme involves
Share your passion with kids through teaching classes like football, dance, music, english or art. You can support our teachers with their daily activities or you can manage your own class. Furthermore the Culture Center and amp; Hostel in the city center of CiEnaga offers a culture program to the local community managed by the volunteers, such as language classes, board games get-togethers, art classes or community cinemas.Our volunteers work around 4 to 5 days a week (3-4 hours daily), depending on the activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will stay in a Culture Center and Hostel in CiEnaga El Habitante brings together local people and its guests. On one hand the place offers freetime activities to the kids in its large room of the house, on the other hand it offers space for 12 tourists in total who can stay in two private rooms or in a dormitory. You will stay in a 6-dorm room. The house has a self-service kitchen, dining room, working area, two terraces, balcony, two showers, bathrooms and a lot of shared spaces to relax or to get creative. The local foundation and hostel supports the community and local business and sells local products such as coffee, honey or handcraft art through our a local shop.The volunteer program includes 3 meals a day (vegetarian food option also available).
📍 About the location
The foundation is located in the city center of CiEnaga directly on the Caribbean Sea in Colombia, just 5 min walk from the 2 km long beach and 20 min by bus to the huge mountains and wildness of La Sierra Nevada. The city center and the pier at the beach offers a variety of restaurants and cool bars. CiEnaga is a very traditional and typical Caribbean village with around 100.000 habitants (which is small in Colombia).The Airport Santa Marta International is just 30 min by Taxi.Things to do in and around CiEnaga:- visit floating village of nueva venecia- thermal waters costa verde- river toribio- mountains sierra nevada - pueblo san pedro de la sierra- visit aracatacaIt just take 45min by bus to travel to Santa Marta or 1,5 hours to visit Minca, a village in the mountains. It takes around 2 hours to visit the famous National park Tayrona.It takes around 4 hours to visit the beautiful and touristic city of CartagenaFor more information visit: https://colombia.travel/en/cienagaThe workcamp includes:Free Walking Tour Santa Marta (Barrio La Lucha) with local tour guideFree Walking Tour CiEnaga with local tour guideWeekly Spanish or Dance Class (2 hours)